Gilda
Gilda was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 10,078 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,760 Americans named Gilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (47% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 58 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gilda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gilda is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,797, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
346 babies in 1947, the peak
Gilda peaked in 1947, when 346 girls were given it, #441 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #9,797 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,605 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,654 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,576 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,725 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,191 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,169 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,211 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,810 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,613 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | #10,689 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,262 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,163 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,634 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,462 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,617 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,457 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,448 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,293 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,292 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,011 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,929 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,107 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,389 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,781 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,059 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,818 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,746 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,453 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,924 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,932 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,893 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,581 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,939 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,870 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,972 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,276 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,361 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,954 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,097 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,628 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,310 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,759 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 40 | #2,080 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,810 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 55 | #1,637 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 60 | #1,587 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,520 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 57 | #1,576 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,563 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 67 | #1,338 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 74 | #1,255 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,159 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 92 | #1,148 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 110 | #1,017 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 113 | #1,009 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 123 | #973 | 0.06 |
| 1960 | 138 | #895 | 0.07 |
| 1959 | 139 | #879 | 0.07 |
| 1958 | 144 | #850 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 172 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 179 | #721 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 194 | #671 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 249 | #563 | 0.13 |
| 1953 | 242 | #561 | 0.13 |
| 1952 | 263 | #522 | 0.14 |
| 1951 | 265 | #507 | 0.15 |
| 1950 | 232 | #540 | 0.14 |
| 1949 | 244 | #527 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 281 | #478 | 0.17 |
| 1947 | 346 | #441 | 0.20 |
| 1946 | 305 | #442 | 0.19 |
| 1945 | 68 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 61 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 55 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 50 | #1,037 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 71 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1939 | 75 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1938 | 72 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 81 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 74 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 112 | #615 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 110 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1933 | 123 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 188 | #482 | 0.18 |
| 1931 | 179 | #479 | 0.17 |
| 1930 | 210 | #464 | 0.19 |
| 1929 | 257 | #414 | 0.23 |
| 1928 | 291 | #393 | 0.25 |
| 1927 | 321 | #381 | 0.27 |
| 1926 | 293 | #401 | 0.25 |
| 1925 | 200 | #497 | 0.16 |
| 1924 | 202 | #490 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 148 | #596 | 0.12 |
| 1922 | 164 | #557 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | 154 | #584 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 130 | #629 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 125 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 115 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 135 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1916 | 123 | #609 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 101 | #659 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 96 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 78 | #578 | 0.12 |
| 1912 | 50 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 42 | #670 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 34 | #732 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 23 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1908 | 26 | #759 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 17 | #930 | 0.05 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,673 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,504 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,584 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gilda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 118 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gilda, and how old are they?
4,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 47% of the 10,078 Americans ever recorded as Gilda. The median Gilda alive today is 70 years old; half are between 58 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 9,356 people named Gilda (9,343 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,562 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 429 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,870 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 775 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 406 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 177 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gilda born?
The states with the most babies named Gilda are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,008 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 751 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 731 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 676 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 496 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 479 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| New Jersey | 415 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 241 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 238 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 175 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Gilda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gilda is most over-represented in Rhode Island: since 1910 it was given 2.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gilda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gilda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gilda and names like it
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- The most given names of the 1940sGilda peaked in 1947.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gilda since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Gilda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gilda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.